Sony Pictures Takes Grasshopper Jungle

Sony Pictures has acquired the big screen rights to the recently-released Andrew Smith novel, Grasshopper Jungle. Published just last month, the book is officially described as follows:

In the small town of Ealing, Iowa, Austin and his best friend Robby have accidentally unleashed an unstoppable army. An army of horny, hungry, six-foot-tall praying mantises that only want to do two things.